Simultaneously, the devastating impacts of routine climate catastrophes in the form of extreme weather, heat stress, proliferation of diseases, and so on, will trigger ongoing costs slashing into world GDP to the tune of 3.2% annually at least.
Climate change, therefore, can turn what would be a routine storm into a catastrophe like those Americans witnessed this summer. .
It's human nature to pay more attention to big catastrophes than to "routine" deaths.
It may mean the difference between a routine day on the river & catastrophe.
Forecasts of "catastrophe," "Armageddon," and "apocalypse" have now become routine.
Air travel here can be a routine experience, but one that exists on the edge of catastrophe, as the plane crash last week in Lagos underscored.
But Mbeki told the panel he is keeping an open mind: "You can't respond to a catastrophe merely by saying 'I will do what is routine.'".
The series of storms and the resulting accumulation of snow has led to collapsed buildings and deaths, and though for most people the weather hasn't led to catastrophe it's altered their day-to-day routines in serious ways.
The husband-and-wife routines -- dubbed "The Hickenloopers" -- became a staple of marital rapture and catastrophe.
POLITICIANS in Washington can't say enough good things about our Fire and Police Departments' ability to deal with a catastrophe, but even our own senators don't trust local officials to handle routine security at airports.
And, that NHS services should only be let out to private providers where there was no cherrypicking of routine cases – leaving the NHS with the cost of emergencies, complexities and post-operative catastrophes as well as training and research.
